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Preferred term

yidYiddish  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. It is written in the Hebrew alphabet.

Entry terms

  • Yiddish language

ISO 639-1 code

  • yi

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • yid

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • yid

ISO 639-3 code

  • yid

Notation

  • yid

In other languages

  • yiddish

    French

  • Yiddish
  • Jiddisch

    German

  • yiddish

    Italian

  • Lingua yiddish
  • Portuguese

  • Língua iídiche
  • Yidis

    Spanish

  • yídish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yid

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